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Crystal structure of (E)-1-methyl-2-[2-(2-methoxphen-yl)ethen-yl]-4-nitro-1H-imidazole
Hayette Alliouche1, Abdelmalek Bouraiou1, Sofiane Bouacida2
1Laboratoire des Produits Naturels d'Origine Végétale et de Synthèse Organique, PHYSYNOR, Université Constantine 1, 25000 Constantine, Algeria.
Abstract:
In the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C13H13N3O3, the 2-(2-methoxphen-yl)ethenyl unit is connected to the methyl-nitro-imidazole 1-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazole moiety. The mol-ecule is quasi-planar and the planes of the two rings form a dihedral angle of 0.92 (11)°. The crystal packing can be described as layers parallel to the (011) plane, stabilized by inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonding, resulting in the formation of an infinite three-dimensional network linking these layers. Strong π-π stacking inter-actions are observed, viz. benzene-benzene, imidazole-imidazole and benzene-imidazole rings, with centroid-centroid distances of 3.528 (2), 3.457 (2) and 3.544 (2) Å, respectively. Intensity statistics indicated twinning by non-merohedry, with refined weighs of the twin components of 0.3687:0.6313.
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